New or old M2 SSD for Windows?
After 10 years, my 250 GB SATA SSD is gradually reaching its capacity limit. The Windows display is increasingly in the red.
That's why I thought about buying the Samsung 990 Pro with 1 TB and installing Windows on it.
Or I make it complicated.
I already bought a 1 TB Samsung 970 Evo as a gaming SSD in 2020. Now, as an alternative, I could use the 970 EVO for Windows in the future, and move the games to the 990 Pro.
I would have to reinstall everything anyway.
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Is your PC capable of PCIe 4.0? Because the 990 Pro is something too much of the good to only work with PCIe 3.0, you can get a much cheaper SSD for Windows.
So my motherboard has 1x PcIe 4.0 and 1x PcIe 3.0 ports for M.2 SSDs
Had to be the Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570 with if I didn’t fool myself.
Yes the X570 MB usually have PCIe 4.0, I honestly assumed that your MB has 10 years on the hump because you had your SSD with 10 years.
I exchanged CPU, motherboard and RAM once in summer 2019.
Since the old SSD was still enough, I wanted to keep these and the two HDDs for the first time.
Then in 2020 I got a 1 TB M.2 SSD for games.
NVME is as fast as you can clap everything on it, there is no reason to keep Windows on a separate disk. You can like to create a partition if you want to share data for future formatting etc. but a second disk is pure money waste.
Hello,
Exactly!
Get a new!TB Samsung 990 Pro,
and install your operating system there.
And there is enough space for future projects.
FFor me, only sensible solution.
The old M.2 250 GB can be used with a USB adapter,
use as external memory.
Now, of course, I don’t know what an M.2 is your 250GB.
Hansi
The 250 GB still has SATA. I will then probably expand it and, as suggested, continue to use it as an external hard drive.
A SATA III.
They can leave in there as an emergency disk.
Hansi
Right. I took the SATA SSD from my old PC.
I think the system was restarted is the better solution.
You took it from an older PC into a new one.
So it would have been converted to GPT again,
and the Windows License Key…
I guess.
The Samsung NVMe 970 from 1.M.2 slot in the 2. M.2 slot.
Then the Samsung NVMe 990 in the 1st M.2 slot.
Clon or reset the SATA SSD to the NVMe 990.
Replace it with Win11 License.
Hansi
250GB is nothing in the hay time. Plan according to how much you do 1-2TB a
I still know the 2014 SSDs were still expensive and I for < 100€ max. 250 GB got. So far, 1 TB should be enough for Windows, music and documents.
If I only use the new ones for games, I could also switch to 2 TB. Or as @Alan1235 has proposed an SSD for both.
If you really only use this for documents, music and Google, 500gb also suffice if you additionally shock 1.5-2TB memory as most games in the hay time take away 60-200gb memory